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EMB vs SHY

International Bond vs US Treasury (Short).

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of EMB and SHY would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

EMB unmatched 95.9% Shared 0.0% SHY unmatched 99.0%

Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.

In EMB only
614 positions
Shared
0 positions
In SHY only
89 positions

Side by side

EMB

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF

iShares · International Bond

74 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.39%
Net assets
$12.93B
TTM yield
5.38%
Top-10 conc.
6.3%
SHY

iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF

iShares · US Treasury (Short)

83 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$26.28B
TTM yield
3.62%
Top-10 conc.
16.0%

Sub-score comparison

61
Cost
85
50
Tax efficiency
58
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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EMB sub-score SHY

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

SHY is 24 bps cheaper than EMB. On a $100,000 position that's about $240/yr more in fees for EMB.

Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with EMB vs SHY.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in EMB

614 total
  • Argentina Republic Government International Bonds 1.21%
  • Ecuador Government International Bonds 0.78%
  • Argentina Republic Government International Bonds 0.70%
  • Argentina Republic Government International Bonds 0.65%
  • Argentina Republic Government International Bonds 0.57%
  • Ghana Government International Bonds 0.55%
  • Uruguay Government International Bonds 0.51%
  • EAGLE FUNDING LUXCO SARL 0.50%
  • Oman Government International Bonds 0.42%
  • UKRAINE GOVERNMENT 0.42%

Only in SHY

89 total
  • United States of America 1.96%
  • United States of America 1.84%
  • United States of America 1.71%
  • United States of America 1.60%
  • United States of America 1.60%
  • United States of America 1.52%
  • United States of America 1.48%
  • United States of America 1.45%
  • United States of America 1.43%
  • United States of America 1.40%

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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.

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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see /methodology/.

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